- Description
- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
![. . . I literally could not believe it when I was told that North Orange County Community College District candidate Art Montez — who boasted of how he would bring […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Art-Montez-115x115.png "Art Montez Betrays His Deceased Uncle Amin David; Vote ED LOPEZ for NOCCCD")
![. . . I’m staying in California through Election Day. I have dozens of races that I’m interested in here, and I know that there are more people than was […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Las-Vegas-Welcome-Sign-115x115.jpeg "Why the Hell Aren’t You Spending Your Weekend in Nevada?")
![. . . Well that was one of the most dramatic games I can ever recall. The best news is, next time they meet in the National League Championship Series, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Cubs-win-Cubs-win-115x115.png "CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! (Or, “Not EVERYTHING is Politics!”)")
![. . . Here’s what’s buzzing around: If Anaheim’s Council agenda Tuesday night was supposed to help sway next week’s election, it didn’t work out as planned. Of the “Trilogy […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/James-Brown-BW-115x115.png "Election 11/2 (All Soul’s Day): Gilliard Sends Out Anti-Khan Placemats; Kring Votes In Fierro")
![. . . No, hiring former Cudahy contract City Attorney Arturo Fierro as an at-will City Attorney for the City of Anaheim, starting tomorrow, is not much better than hiring him with […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Brandman-in-Fierro-Mask-115x115.png "Last Pre-Election Meeting: Anaheim’s Trilogy of Terrible! Part 3: Appointing a Shredding Approver")
![. . . Someone in or around City government (we don’t know which) has had the kernel of what sounds like a good idea: create a health services facility right next […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Access-California-in-the-Park-115x115.png "Last Pre-Election Meeting: Anaheim’s Trilogy of Terrible! Part 2: A Rush to Political Gain?")
![. . . This is the last Anaheim City Council meeting before the election, and the last regularly scheduled Council meeting before the new Council is sworn in on December 13. You’d […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Brandman-with-Pringle-ghost-twist-115x115.png "Last Pre-Election Meeting: Anaheim’s Trilogy of Terrible! Part 1: Another Land Giveaway!")
![. . . If you read only one story today, make the Voice of OC’s “Disney Breaks Its Own Spending Record in This Year’s Anaheim Council Election,“ which came out in the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/All-No-Saints-Day-115x115.png "Election, 11/1 “All Saint’s Day” Updates: Disney Takes Off the Aladdin Mask to Reveal Jafar")
![. . . So. Much. Going on. Have a look: Some anonymous Dr. Jose Moreno supporter has no fear of Disney’s lawyers! But the last half of the video, the part […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ghostbusters-Bill-Murray-Dogs-and-Cats-e1477943851788-115x115.jpg "Election 10/31 — Voter Sacrifice! Mailers and Videos Living Together! Mass Hysteria!")
![. . . Darrell Issa’s mailer attempting to wrap himself in the warm embrace of President Barack Hussein Obama is starting to look like the worst political miscalculation in Orange […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Applegate-with-Obama-115x115.jpg "CA-49: Darrell Issa Must Be Bleeding Out of His Whatever This Morning")
![. . . Steve Lodge’s supporters claim that he’s leading his rivals in District 1, but there are only two reasons why a candidate would show such amazing contempt for voters […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lodge-Tait-Flyer-annotated-115x115.png "‘Subsidy Steve’ Lodge’s Brazen Entry for ‘Biggest Lie of the Year’: “I’m Endorsed by Mayor Tait”")
![. . . [Additions to this piece on Oct. 30 are in purple. Deletions will be obvious.] There are huge fissures within the Irvine Democratic Party right now, largely over […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Farrah-Khan-and-Melissa-Fox-115x115.png "URGENT and UPDATED! Irvine Dems MUST Vote for BOTH KHAN AND FOX! Here’s Why!")
![. . . Yorba Linda — your politics are a mess and the rest of us don’t really want to talk about it. So this is your own little safe […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Yorba-Linda-sign-psychedelic-115x115.png "This is Your Yorba Linda Council and Water Board Election Mosh Pit: (‘Gracious Living,’ HA!)")
![. . . Dear Mr. Dale Cheema, I don’t believe that you and I have ever met; nor do I know that you even know who I am. But as one […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cheema-attack-mailer-with-Chumley-overlay-115x115.png "An Apology to Irvine City Council Candidate Dale Cheema on Behalf of Dan Chmielewski")
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